By Ryogo Kubo
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Solution dependence on problem type, medium parameters, and initial data Multiplying the first of these equations by Uk (ro (t) , i), summing over index k, adding the result to the second equation, and introducing the vector function Fi (t\ro,to) = (— + U (ro, t 0 ) TT-) n (t|r 0 , to) , V ok) or0 / we obtain that this function satisfies the linear homogeneous equation jdrm{rdlTk)-T)Fk{r\rQ,t0), Fl(t\r0,tQ) = to whose solution is obviously t\ (t|ro,to) = 0. 20) which can be considered as the linear partial differential equation in terms of derivatives with respect to variables ro and to satisfying at to = t the initial condition r ( t | r o , t ) = ro.
With respect to rotations of the reference system, then field / ( x , i) is called the homogeneous isotropic random field. In this case, the correlation function depends on the length |xi — x 2 |: B / ( x i , i i ; x 2 , t 2 ) = (/(x 1 ,t 1 )/(x 2 ,i 2 )) = £/(|xi - x 2 | ; * i , t 2 ) . The Fourier transform of correlation function of the homogeneous random field with respect to spatial variables defines the spatial spectral function (called also the angular spectrum) $/(k,t) = /fixB/(x,t)e l k x , and the Fourier transform of correlation function of the stationary and homogeneous random field / ( x , t) with respect to both spatial and temporal variables defines the space-time spectrum oc * / ( k , w ) = I dx.
1. Random quantities and their characteristics 53 £ (in so doing, operator Q(d/id£) should be introduced into averaging brackets) and set r) = 0. 11) for fl(v), as the series in cumulants Kn Note that, setting /(£) = £n~ in Eq. 12), we obtain the recurrence formula M (Mo= 1 n= 1 2 " = it(k}niMn-k)\KkMn-k ' ' '-) (413) that relates moments and cumulants of random quantity £. To illustrate practicability of the above formulas, we consider two types of random quantities £ as examples. 1. ) = 0, 2 2 B(v) = -^-, M 2 = K2 = a2 = (^ 2 ) , Kn>2 = 0.